Following the graduation ceremony, I was awarded as a graduate whose diploma thesis¹ was selected as the best among the theses of all students from the same generation of graduates from the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, under the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Macedonia. The thesis selection criteria included technical and research excellence reaching beyond the expected diploma thesis requirements, potential impact and significance in the field of Computer Science.

It is also worth noting that my diploma thesis had a further reaching impact in the field as its contents were later published in a peer-reviewer paper [R2] in Scientific Reports, a Nature Publishing Group journal (impact factor at the time of publication: 4.122; current impact factor: 4.997; 5-year impact factor: 5.516).

[R2] Arsov, N.*, Pavlovski, M.*, Basnarkov, L., & Kocarev, L. (2017). Generating highly accurate prediction hypotheses through collaborative ensemble learning. Scientific reports, 7(1), 1-9.
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¹ Often used interchangeably with bachelor’s thesis or graduation thesis.
* Authors contributed equally.